Traffic flows on Shouth Shields Road after a storm front dumped about 10-inches of snow in Fort Collins on April 16. / V. Richard Haro/The Coloradoan

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Fort Collins residents react to May snow forecast: Fort Collins residents react to impending snowstorm, which is expected to drop up to 12 inches through Wednesday, May 1.

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Fort Collins is looking to break a May 1 snowfall record as a major winter storm is expected to dump up to a foot of snow in Northern Colorado through Wednesday evening.

With between 6-12 inches of snow expected to fall in Fort Collins through Wednesday evening, the National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for Fort Collins and western Weld County effective through 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Temperatures are expected to dive into the 20s and 30s Wednesday, before daytime highs warm into the 40s and 50s later this week.

The April 30 snowfall record for Fort Collins is 4.5 inches set in 1900. The record for May 1 is 2 inches set in 1973.

“This is a pretty cold cold front,” said meteorologist Judy Fossum of DayWeather in Cheyenne. “Tomorrow (Wednesday), we might not get out of the 20s. It’s going to be a snowy, chilly start to May.”

No temperature records are likely to be broken, Fossum said. The record low temperature for May 1 is 19 degrees set in 1907.

“Strengthening upslope conditions will bring more snow accumulation late (Tuesday) and Wednesday in and near the foothills and eastern slopes of the Front Range mountains,” according to the winter storm warning announcement. “Good moisture and lift with this system will combine with temperatures dropping (to) near 25 degrees on Wednesday.”